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Breach: New Computer Virus Can Cripple Power Plants With the Click of a Mouse
SHTF Plan ^
| 7/1/14
| Mac Slavo
Posted on 07/01/2014 4:03:45 PM PDT by Kartographer
Over 1,000 energy firms were infected with a sophisticated cyber weapon that gave hackers access to power plant control systems, it has been revealed.
The software allows operators to monitor energy consumption in real time and to cripple physical systems such as wind turbines, gas pipelines and power plants at the click of a mouse.
Among the targets of Dragonfly were energy grid operators, major electricity generation firms, petroleum pipeline operators, and energy industry industrial equipment providers, Symantec said.
Dragonfly initially targeted defense and aviation companies in the US and Canada before shifting its focus mainly to US and European energy firms in early 2013.
Dragonfly bears the hallmarks of a state-sponsored operation, displaying a high degree of technical capability.
Daily Mail via Steve Quayle
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: computervirus; energy; hackers; powerplants
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"We'll turn the lights off for you."
To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:04:21 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
Wish I knew of a location where your life didn’t depend on heat OR a/c. Hate both.
No a/c won’t kill you. But geez, it’s hard to sleep while wet. Have PV panels and batteries and 12v fans but still. Better than nothing though.
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:08:39 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
To: Kartographer
The only surprise is they admitted the breach.
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:08:52 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Kartographer
That’s quicker than Obama’s EPA rules.
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:09:44 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Kartographer
Yup - puttin' in a wood stove this fall - with two cook plates.
Then it's just a matter of fine-tunin' the preps....
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:13:35 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Kartographer
Eventually we’re going to need a Battlestar Galactica solution. No networked computers in vital systems.
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:15:21 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:22:21 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:25:14 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Kartographer
Didn’t this happen in Die Hard IV?
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:31:12 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: Kartographer
SCADA. Do the utilities still use carrier current communications between the power plants and the substations? It’s a question for any freepers who may work for in the electric power generation sector. I see some of the equipment installed at various substations, but I’m not sure that those systems are still in use. An outside control network, especially one that uses a public telcom network, would be a really, really bad idea. Controls for power generation and distribution really need to stay a closed system, with no access to the outside world.
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:36:00 PM PDT
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: factoryrat
I think many went from carrier signal to a dedicated fiber optic fiber buried in the transmission right of way.
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posted on
07/01/2014 4:47:05 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Kartographer
Just finished reading about this, page 1 of the Business section of today’s Times. It’s the Russians, says the Times, and so far they have been snooping at the technology but not blowing anything up.
To: Kartographer
This is Obama’s wet dream. Doing what the EPA can’t
To: firebrand
Not sure this is Dragonfly. Times calls it hackers, not a virus.
To: Kartographer
I'm skeptical. I work for an electrical utility, and there is no way some sleaze-bag hacker got into our control system.
No way.
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posted on
07/01/2014 5:02:57 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: factoryrat
Do the utilities still use carrier current communications between the power plants and the substations?
Look into generating power and selling your surplus back; then you'll get into the specs for substations.
I looked at this a while back just for dumb fun, yes, substations had a spec for a phone company connection, of course, while they want a communication link, it needed to be isolated, shielded, protected from shorts, etc.
I have the same problem with my cheepo computer monitor signal cable; when it lays next to the power cables, I get shadows on my monitor. Move the cable, shadows gone.
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posted on
07/01/2014 5:03:31 PM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: firebrand
To: thackney
I think many went from carrier signal to a dedicated fiber optic fiber buried in the transmission right of way. Some did. Some did partially. And some have very little.
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posted on
07/01/2014 5:06:17 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Kartographer
“New Computer Virus Can Cripple Power Plants With the Click of a Mouse”
Totally false. I keep clicking my mouse and not a damn thing is happening: the lights are still on.
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posted on
07/01/2014 5:06:23 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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